Support for shoe-uppers.



H. W. LAMBERT.

SUPPORT FOR SHOE UPPERS.

APPLIUAT'ION FILED MAB..11, 1912. RENEWED MAY 29, 1914. 1 1 05,333

Patented July 28, 1914.

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HENRY w. LAMBnnnon srouerrron, MASSACHUSETTS.

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Specification of LetterslBatent. v Patented uly 28, 191 4.

Application filed March 11, 1912, Serial No. 6 8 3,051. Benewed May 29,1914. Serial No. 841,960.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY W. LAMBERT,

of Stoughton, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new and useful Support for Shoe-Uppers, of

which the following is a specification, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part thereof.

their manufacture,

One object of the-invention is to provide a device adapted to be appliedto the upper of a shoe during the process of its construction and forsustaining or supporting said upper during following stages in itsprocess of construction.

Another object of the invention is to so construct a device that, by theuse of the same, the shoe upper may be protected: from injury.

Other objects of the invention will appear from the followingdescription.

The invention consists in the supporting and protecting devicehereinafter described and claimed.

Figure 1 represents a side view of a shoe and shows the improvedsupporting and protecting device applied thereto. Fig. 2 represents asectional View taken on line 22 Fig. 1, parts of the shoe being brokenaway.

Similar characters of reference designate corresponding partsthroughout.

In the manufacture of shoes and particularly in the finishing steps,after the lasting of the shoe, I have found that handling of the shoe isfacilitatedv by distending the upper and supporting the samepracticallyfree from wrinkles or folds and that injury to the material of the upperis thereby to a large degree avoided especially when the supportingdevice extends over the inner or the outer surface of the upper.

In carrying this invention into practice I preferably constructthe newsupporting device from leather board or similar durable andcomparatively stiff material and having thesupporting member 5 and theflap 6. The member 5 is preferably of such length that it extends fromthe inner surface of the shoe sole A to and above the upper edge 2) ofthe shoe upper B while the flap 6 extends from the upper portion ofmember 5 over Said edge 5 and down over the outer surface of the shoeupper B. The shape of said members 5 and 6 depends somewhat on theprotection desired to be afiorded thereby but member 6 should besuiiiciently wide to be stable. Provision is made to utilize thestability of said member 6 for supporting or sustaining theupper Bapproximately in the the member 5 of this supporting device is placed inthe shoe with its lowerv end bearing against the sole A or against anyother portion of the shoe which will sustain the same and theflap member6 overlapping the exterior of the shoe upper. The clamping member 9 isnow swung downwardly to bring its shoulder 10 between the arm 8 of plate7 and the flap member 6 whereby the shoe upper B is frictionally engagedbetween said flap member 6 and the supporting or strut member 5 and isthereby sustained in the position shown approximately in Fig. 1,

of thedrawings. The upper B is thus held from wrinkling or creasingduring subsequent steps of manufacture, the lining of the upper isprotected and the handling of the shoe is facilitated as the upper issup ported ina convenient position to be grasped while the flexibilityof the material from which the supporting devices are made i such thatit may yield somewhat.

While I have shown and described herein the preferred form of my newsupporting device, I do not intend thereby to limit my invention to suchconstruction as I am aware that the supporting member of my device maybe attached to or engaged with the up per of a shoe in other ways thanthat shown. By the use of the flat supporting members 5, 5 the lowerends of the same can be inserted between the last L and the sides of theshoe as is shown in Fig. 2while the upper portions of such members donot interfere with the introduction within the shoe 7 of sultable toolsor devices for engaging said last or for supporting the shoe duringoperations thereon subsequent to the application of my supportingdevices,

Having thus described my invention I Which is fixed to said supportingmember claim as new and desire to secure by Letters and the other ofwhichoperates against said Patent- 'fia A supporting device for theuppers of p HENRY W'. LAMBERT.

5 shoes comprising a flat supporting member WVitnesses:

having at its end an integral flap, and a HENRY J. MILLER, clampingdevice having two members one of E. C. MURPHY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents.

. Washington, I). G."

